Browsing Month April, 2012

In order to teach my eager troop of Boy Scouts a thing or two about civic responsibility, I decided to change this Thursday evening’s activity from “creating pipe bombs from chipmunk poop” into a “trip to the blood bank.” Wide-eyed, (ah to be wide-eyed again) they filed into the Canadian Blood Services to learn why every responsible healthy adult should more...

The military has an odd knack of referring to any nerve racking medical procedure as a "parade", as though the thought of a marching band, twirling batons and juggling politicians in clown suits, lessens the inevitable discomfort. "NEEDLE PARADE" for example is the lining up of the troops for inoculations. My personal favourite was "VAS PARADE" when, every Friday more...

Did you know that you can find pleasure by the foot...in fact, at the ankle to be exact. Because when it comes to scratching, the ankle region produces the most pleasure for your pruritis according to research published in the British Journal of Dermatology. These findings are based on data produced by world-renowned itch specialist Gil Yosipovitch (honest...that’s more...

Although we have heard the commercials that say ‘Things Go Better With Coke’, this might not always be true in the case of drinking too many cases of the stuff (as evidenced by the recent reports of the New Zealand woman who consumed 2 gallons of the beverage per day until her unexpected death). According to researchers from the Cleveland Clinic and Harvard more...

Meet my eldest son.
Age: 18
Height: 6’1”
Weight:190
Occupation: Hockey player
IQ: Hockey player
Physique: Muscular, as in tossing opposing players through boards
Favorite novel: Horton Hears a Who
Favorite cuisine: “Qwizzing??? I don’t like qwizzes.”
“Dad, the boys and I were talking on the bus on the way to the game. Somebody asked if anyone more...

Don’t look now but your body is being brutally damaged by something you are wearing. Tongue stud? Tight Fruit of the Looms? Barry Manilow T-shirt? Sure, but even worse are your loafers, pumps and stilettos.
A study conducted in China several years ago compared the relationship between footwear and foot problems. It concluded that umpteen billion Chinese who did not more...

For centuries, we have heard that drinking a big glass of warm milk before bedtime helps us fall asleep but is that true? The answer is YES...ingesting a quantity of slightly warmed milk does help us achieve a few more zzzzz’s. However, if the milk is too warm (from sitting on the bedside table all day), your stomach will end up keeping you awake (and in the more...